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Chuck Hillman prac­tices what he preaches, applying his research find­ings to his per­sonal life. When he’s not studying the rela­tion­ship between phys­ical activity and cog­ni­tive health, he’s biking, playing ice hockey, or lifting weights in his home gym.

In the 52nd annual Robert D. Klein Lec­ture on Tuesday, psy­chology pro­fessor Iris Berent argued that human lan­guage is a product of a spe­cial­ized bio­log­ical system, that we are are innately equipped with a lan­guage instinct.

Lisa Feldman Bar­rett, Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Psy­chology at North­eastern, explains why mis­con­cep­tions about emo­tion per­sist, how our emo­tional brains change as we age, and the role of con­text in what we feel.

In recent years, sci­en­tists have dis­cov­ered that the human brain works on pre­dic­tions, con­trary to the pre­vi­ously accepted theory that it reacts to out­side sen­sa­tions. Now, in a paper pub­lished in Nature, Dis­tin­guished Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor Lisa Feldman Bar­rett has reported finding the epi­center of those predictions.

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers are part of an inter­na­tional, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team exploring a first-​​of-​​its-​​kind approach to improve human intel­li­gence by stim­u­lating the brain with low-​​level tran­scra­nial cur­rent applied to the scalp.

North­eastern pro­fessor Dagmar Sternad received the 50th annual Robert D. Klein Uni­ver­sity Lec­turer Award on Tuesday and dis­cussed her inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research on how the brain con­trols the human body.

Physics pro­fessor Srinivas Sridhar and his team of researchers are devel­oping new tech­nology that could be useful for a variety of appli­ca­tions from detecting mil­i­tary threats to tracking epileptic seizures..

A couple weeks ago I attended the phar­ma­ceu­tical sci­ences research expo, where, as you might imagine, a bunch of phar­ma­ceu­tical sci­en­tists got together to present their cur­rent work. Among a […]

Recent find­ings from the Lab­o­ra­tory of Neu­ro­bi­ology at North­eastern, led by biology pro­fessor and chair Gün­ther Zupanc, and pub­lished online in the sci­en­tific journal Neu­ro­science, demon­strate the mech­a­nism by which new neurons […]

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